The O'Reilly Factor

In 2016, Nandini co-founded Sleeping Giants, the social media campaign that first led advertisers to flee Breitbart after the 2016 elections.

At Sleeping Giants, she led campaigns that convinced advertisers to cut with Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, and Tucker Carlson Tonight.

The campaign won a con gold lion and a Webby Award for public service and activism.

Steve Bannon, Breitbart's executive chairman, was captured on video in 2017 saying that the campaign caused Breitbart's advertising revenues to drop approximately 90%.

I can remember some of the TV hosts of the day.

You had Bill O'Reilly, the O'Reilly Factor.

I'm trying to remember some of the others that came and went, and there was a number that came through the 8 p.m. slot, and then there was Hannity and Combs at 9.

Eventually, Combs left, and it was just Hannity, and I think I know that Combs passed away a number of years ago.

It's been talked about in- as far as, you know, in conservative circles.

I mean, Bill O'Reilly, when he was on Fox for the, uh, O'Reilly Factor, he kind of mentioned it too.

The one way that conservatives can, can actually begin to win the culture war, it's gonna be a long process.

There's a lot of rich conservatives out there who can, you know, donate money to, uh, a college university and, and start instituting change and hiring some, some...

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... as sort of, like, just saying these things as if this isn't a show for entertainment, that, that he's on The O'Reilly Factor.

Yeah, this is a, this is a venue for me to scream from the top of the rooftops instead of actually-

I...

Uh, congratulations on that.

I, I started reading your books when you first put out The O'Reilly Factor and then, uh, the No Spin Zone, and it seems to me that this is kind of a common theme we've had, uh, throughout the last 25, 30 years.

Uh, the problems we have in America really haven't changed that much, starting with the, uh, the school systems.

We have the NEA.

Sean Hannity is one of the rare individuals who is equally good at doing TV and doing radio.

Versus Bill O'Reilly from the O'Reilly Factor had for many years the number one show on Fox, but he just could not do radio to save his life.

Just absolutely terrible.

So Sean Hannity... worth $400 million, finally left New York, goes to Florida.

But televised politics intentionally strips those guardrails away.

The study points to shows like The O'Reilly Factor or Crossfire.

Yeah, these programs didn't want polite disagreement.

They actively produced intense, heated, uncivil exchanges.

In the bio that is included on the, I believe, Simon & Schuster website, it says, "Argov's work has appeared in over 100 magazines worldwide, including Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Self, Glamour, and People Magazine.

Sherrie's work has been featured on national television shows such as The Today Show, The View, and Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor."

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Okay.

The Today Show does list, like she was recently on, a guest on her show, so that appears to be true.

I couldn't find anything from The View.

I couldn't find anything from The O'Reilly Factor.

I don't think she's, like, lying about those things.

In November of 2008, it was announced that Oberman had signed a four-year contract extension worth an estimated $30 million.

After beginning Countdown's Worst Person in the World segment in 2005, Oberman repeatedly awarded Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel, the dubious honor.

The feud between the anchors originated with Oberman's extensive coverage of of a 2004 sexual harassment suit brought against O'Reilly by former Fox News Channel producer Andrea Macris, during which Oberman asked Countdown viewers to fund the purchase of lurid audio tapes allegedly held by Macris.

In 2008, O'Reilly decided to avoid mentioning Oberman's name on the air.

And although it began as a traditional newscast, Countdown with Keith Olbermann was eventually adopted in an opinion-oriented format.

In a Countdown interview with Al Frankren on October 25, 2005, Oberman noted that in 2003, after having Janine Garofalo and Franken on a show, a vice president of MSNBC had questioned him on inviting liberals on consecutive nights, contrasting that occurrence to the apparent ideological attitude he enjoyed at the time of the second Franken interview.

In January of 2007, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz wrote that Oberman was positioning his program as an increasingly liberal alternative to the O'Reilly factor.

Much of the program featured harsh criticism of prominent Republicans and right-leaning figures, including those who worked for or supported the George W. Bush administration, 2008 Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain, and running mate Governor Sarah Palin, and rival news commentator Bill O'Reilly, whom Oberman has routinely dubbed the worst person in the world.